Auleria Wakudumo The Swapo Party’s Okongo district office has been officially renamed after the First Gentleman, Lieutenant-General (Rtd) Epaphras Denga Ndaitwah. This is in recognition of his contribution to the liberation struggle and continued commitment to national development. Speaking at the renaming ceremony, Ndaitwah expressed gratitude to the party leadership. He urged members to remain...
RUNDU – The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) yesterday officially launched the Kavango East regional profile, a comprehensive report based on the 2023 Population and Housing Census results. The profile provides detailed demographic, social, and economic statistics for the region and its constituencies. “The Statistics Act requires us to conduct a census. In fact, the census...
Lahja Nashuuta The charismatic church leader, who heads the True Gospel of Salvation Ministry, will stand under the banner of the Body of Christ Party (BCP), which currently holds one seat in the National Assembly. Festus leads a congregation with 92 branches across the country, supported by more than 420 pastors. His ambition is to...
Auleria Wakudumo The Roads Contractor Company (RCC) and the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) signed a five-year memorandum of understanding aimed at accelerating land servicing and affordable housing delivery across Namibia. The agreement was done in line with government’s national development priorities under the Sixth National Development Plan (NDP6). At the signing ceremony, NHE Chief Executive...
Iuze Mukube Legal practitioners across the country united online and offline to express condolences and gratitude to one of the prominent criminal lawyers in Namibia. Hipura Ujaha, who died on 5 September 2025, graduated from the University of Namibia alongside Sisa Namandje and Brian Uirab. Natjirikasorua Tjirera stated that Ujaha’s life was an “oasis of...
According to the latest Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) regional census profile, about 92.1% of homesteads in the Otjozondjupa region have access to a sustainable supply of safe, clean drinking water. The number of households in Otjozondjupa increased by 75.5% between 2011 and 2023, with homes in urban areas having increased significantly by 96.2%. In total,...
SWAKOPMUND – The Daures Green Hydrogen Village is demonstrating how advanced fertigation and water-saving technologies can transform agriculture in Namibia’s dry climate while reducing reliance on imports. The project, launched in 2023 in Erongo’s Daures constituency, operates a one-hectare butterfly greenhouse and a pad-and-fan nursery, where cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers are cultivated using precision fertigation...
Lahja Nashuuta The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has registered four new community-based associations ahead of this year’s regional and local authority elections. The commission is now calling for public objections to the registration of these associations. The objection period, which commenced on 11 September, will run until 11 October 2025. “All objections must be...
KATIMA MULILO – The long-running dispute over Hippo Lodge has taken another twist after the Kwala family of Ishubu village, on the banks of the Zambezi River, rejected any plans to compensate the lodge’s former investors, insisting that the land belongs to them and that no outsider has the right to claim ownership. The matter...
WALVIS BAY –With regional and local authority elections drawing closer, political temperatures are rising in Walvis Bay as rival parties gear up for what promises to be a fiercely contested battle for control of the harbour town. Walvis Bay Rural constituency councillor Florian Donatus, who is currently restrained by the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC)...